Oil-burner



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OIL BURNER. APPLICATION FILED APR. 2, 1919.

Patented May 3,1921.

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olLl BURNER.

APPLICATION FILED APK. 2, 1919.

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oUNrraD, STATES PAUL L. DULANEY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

OIL-BURNER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 3, 1921.

Application led April 2, 1919. Serial No. 286,931.

To all u'zom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, PAUL L. DULANEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Oil-Burners, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of-this specification, in which- Figure 1 is an elevational view partly in section of my improved oil burner.

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of my improved oil burner taken at right angles to F ig. l.

Fig, 3 is a horizontal sectional view.

Fig. -l is a detail view of the wick carrier.

Fig. 5 is a detail view of the wick support.

Fig. 6 is a detail view of the wick carrier.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in oil burners designed particularly for burning coal-oil, the object being to construct a burner in such a mannei that the wick is supported and carried at diametrically opposite points so that it can be raised and lowered without tilting or canting. Another object is to avoid the use of packed joints for the moving parts.

In the drawings, 1 indicates a reservoir for oil, shown as a bottle inverted with its mouth in a funnel-shaped support 2 from the bottom of which leads a conduit or pipe 3 to an oil reservoir containing a wick. This oil reservoir consists of two parallel walls 5 and G which are cylindrical in shape and which are closed at their bottoms. 7 indicates transversely disposed walls forming a cross-passage in the reservoir and which passage is closed at its bottom so as to retain the oil. thereby forming a cross connection between the opposite sides of the cylindrical reservoir. The conduit 3 may communicate with the bottom of this cross-passage, as shown. 8 indicates a wick carrier in the form of a cylinder having an outwardly eX- tending flange. The wick 9 is placed around this cylinder and upon the flange, said wick extending upwardly and projecting through the open end of the reservoir at its top where the oil or, vaporous gases generated by the heat may be ignited, the flame passing up between the walls of the burner 10. The wick carrier is preferably formed with indentations or burs 8a for engagement with the wick, whereby the wick is-held in position on the carrier and may be raised and lowered as desired. 11 indicates a cross-bar operating between the walls 7 and whose ends are bent upwardly and notched at 1la on their inner edges, as shown in Fig. 5. These notches aredesigned to engage the outwardly extending flange at the lower edge of the wick carrier, this engagement being effected byslowly springing the upwardly extending arms of the cross-bar apart at the time of introducing the wick carrier.

12 indicates a rod connected to the crossbar 11, which rod extends upwardly between the walls 7 and out through a suitable opening at the upper edges of said walls, where said rod 12 is bent downwardly and its lower exterior extremity formed with rack teeth 13. 11 indicates a pinion mounted on a suitable shaft 15 having a hand wheel 16 by which the `shaft may be turned.

The operation of my burner is extremely simple, being accomplished by turning the hand wheel in the usual and well known manner, whereby, through the connections just above described, the wick carrier is raised and lowered and with it the wick.

There are no packedoints for any of the moving parts, and, consequently, there is no chance for leakage because of packed joints.

It will be readily understood that minor changes in the size, form and construction of the various parts ofl my improved-oil burner may be-made and substituted for those herein shown and described, wit-hout departing from the spirit of my invention, the scope'of which is set forth in the appended claims.

That T claim is:

1. A tubular oil burner having a tubular wick, an annular oil reservoir for said wick, said reservoir being provided with a transversely disposed chamber, and exteriorly operated means acting through said chamber for raising and lowering the wick,

2.' A -tubular oil burner having a tubular wick, a wick carrier by means of which said wick may be raised and lowered, transversely disposed walls arranged in said burner to form a cross-connecting chamber, and means operating in said cross-connecting chamber and in engagement with the wick carrier for raising and lowering the wick.

3. A tubular oil burner having a tubular wick in combination with a flanged wick oar- 5 ber, and a bar operating in said chamber and in engagement with the ange of the wick carrier.

4. In an oil burner, the combination with a tubular wick and the carrier for said wick,

of a wick raising and lowering means comprising a transversely disposed bar, the end portions 4of which are adapted to engage parts of the wick carrier, a substantially inverted U-shaped member one of the legs vof which is connected to said transverse bar,

and means adapted to engage the other leg of said rod for raising and lowering the same and the wick carrier.

5. A tubular burner provided with transversely disposed walls to form a cross chamber, a wick carrier arranged in said tubular burner, a tubular wick carried by said carrier, and manually operable lwick raising and lowering means having Ya portion disposed within said cross chamber.

' 6. In an oil burner, an annular reservoir, a tubular wick 1n said reservoir, transversely disposed walls arranged wlthin sa1d reservoir to form a cross chamber that communicates with the chamber in said annular reservoir, and wick raising and lowering means including a member positioned in the cross chamber and extending into the annular reservoir.

7. In an oil burner, a Wick carrier, a tubular wick carried thereby, a cross bar detachably connected to the lower portion ofthe Wick carrier, a vertically disposed inverted U-shaped member, one of the legs of which is connected to the cross bar, and means adapted to engage the other leg of said vertically disposed member for raising and lowering the same.

8. In an oil burner, the combination with a tubular wick carrier provided on its lower portion with a flange, of a cross bar having its end portions bent upwardly and provided with notches adapted to engage the flange on the lower portion of the wick carrier, a member connectedto said cross bar, and manuall)v operable means for raising and lowering said Y member, the cross bar, and the wick carrier associated therewith.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature this 31st day of March. 1919.

PAUL L. DLANEY. 

